CeBIT has solidified its position as the world's leading event for IT and telecommunications: with 6,115 exhibitors from 65 different countries (2004: 6,109 exhibitors from 64 countries) and orders for floor space currently running at 306,000 square meters (312,539), CeBIT 2005 - running from 10 to 16 March - will easily outdistance its closest rivals on the exhibition circuit. As one of the economy's key sectors, the international ICT industry is embracing its penultimate flagship fair. According to BITKOM, the Berlin-based Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media, a total of almost EUR 2.2 billion will be spent on IT and telecommunications in 2004, and the curve continues to point upward.

At this year's Motor Show in Essen, which will take place from November 26 to December 5, the original Porsche of the Porsche Carrera Cup will be on display for the first time. Fujifilm sponsors the Mamerow Racing team, which has more than 20 years' experience in motor sport. Peter Mamerow's team has made a name for itself in the ADAC GT Cup, the Super-Tourenwagen (touring car) Cup, the Porsche Carrera Cup, the Formula ADAC Championship and since 2001 in the DTM (German Touring Car Masters). In the 2004 Porsche Carrera Cup, the Mamerow team entered the Fujifilm Porsche with driver Hannes Lachinger which won the title with Mamerow in the Formula BMW Championship in 2000.

Nikon Inc. and its innovative Coolpix 101 site, designed to inform users about the many facets of digital photography, was recently recognized by the Long Island Advertising Club as the "Best Educational Internet Website" at the annual Best on Long Island (BOLI) 31 Awards. Using the latest in Multimedia Flash technology, Coolpix 101 has been praised for its creative ability to instruct any digital photographer in a wide variety of topics, from understanding pixels to emailing pictures. "We are thrilled to have been selected as a winner in this year's competitive and prestigious BOLI awards," said Tracy Mack-Jackson, senior manager of Internet development and programs at Nikon Inc.

A photomontage created by Kodak to celebrate the citizens of Greece and the return of the Olympic Games to Athens, won the Gold Award in its category at the 3rd annual Effie Hellas 2004 Awards Ceremony. The Effie Awards are presented annually by the New York American Marketing Association in recognition of the year's advertising campaigns that have delivered superior results in meeting the objectives they were designed to achieve. The photomontage titled "The Whole of Greece in One Smile" comprises 16,828 photos of the Greek community that cover a surface area of over 5,000 square feet. The montage utilized 16,609 photographs that had previously been used to create a photo exhibition recognized by the Guinness Book of Records.

The CeBIT 2004 show in Hannover, Germany is held on a surface area of 355,000 square meters indoors. The display space is divided between 27 halls, each one measuring between 6,850 square meters and 69,890 square meters in size. One doesn't need a lot of imagination to imagine the large amount of kilometers that has to be covered to visit every hall! Fortunately the team of LetsGoDigital is specialized in digital Imaging that is mainly found in Hall 1. Over 6000 exhibitors came forward from 60 different countries and 43% from outside of Germany. This makes this show the largest from all worldwide organized CeBIT shows.

LetsGoDigital arrived Tuesday 10th of February in Las Vegas where we have been very busy visiting the PMA show for the last few days. This show stands for the introduction of an incredible large amount of new products. It should be said that most of the new products are not very surprising, often they are a logical continuation of what we have seen on the market for a while. We notice an increase of the highest resolution cameras from 6 to 8 Megapixels, an increase of optical zoom from 3 to 5x, but other than that we see a lot of similar things. Interesting is the increase of storage capacity of memory cards from divers manufacturers or suppliers with one striking innovative solution SanDisk applied to their 4GB CompactFlash card.